Or we could just go with Burgess' description: "She's a big girl."īut maybe she's not as big as people say. Maybe Padilla should have just said she's big-boned, or since she's a shark, big-cartilaged. Perhaps Burgess thought Padilla was subtly trying to fat-shame the fish. Shark expert George Burgess told ABC, "The only thing I take umbrage to is that she was pregnant - I'm not sure that she was from what I could see." It's not clear why anyone would "take umbrage" at the thought of someone mistakenly thinking a shark is pregnant. So maybe the high-five was his way of saying congratulations.īut not everyone thought Deep Blue had a bun in her oven. He thought the gargantuan fish was pregnant. We haven't really figured out where they go or how they spend their time." However, Padilla had an idea about how Deep Blue spent at least some of her time. As a shark expert explained to NBC, "Females are kind of elusive. It's not every day that you get to see a female great white up close. In fairness to Padilla, he might have just been overcome with excitement. When a group of divers touched a different great white from inside a cage in 2016, one biologist called it "one of the dumbest and most dangerous shark interactions I have ever seen" because in addition to endangering the divers, it could have prompted the shark to ram the cage and injure itself. Cool, yeah, who really needs both of their hands?Įven if you don't mind the prospect of an underwater amputation, high-fiving a great white is a terrible idea because it can also endanger the shark in some cases. That someone was shark-ologist Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, who gave Deep Blue her nickname. In a video clip of their encounter first released in 2015, a fearless Padilla "high-fived" one of Deep Blue's fins. Yet when 50-year-old behemoth Deep Blue was first discovered near the Mexican island of Guadalupe in 2013, one diver felt so comfortable that he reached out and touched her. So you probably wouldn't want to get too friendly with her if ever you crossed paths. She is a roughly 50-year-old shark who can literally hug you to bits with her mouth. So rather than seeing Deep Blue as the 20 feet of terror fuel she looks like, we can think of her as 12 adorable human babies stacked end to end who explore the world by tasting it with their dangerously serrated mouths.ĭeep Blue, however, is not a baby. Even though they account for one-third to one-half of the more than 100 shark attacks that happen each year, great whites apparently bite people out of curiosity rather than bloodlust most of the time, and most chomping incidents aren't fatal. People call her "Deep Blue," and she was first introduced to the public through Discovery Channel's Shark Week marathon.ĭespite her prodigious size, the way-too-many teeth in her mouth, and those freakishly beady eyes that seem to know precisely how you taste, Deep Blue is not a nightmare. The largest ever caught on film is about 20 feet long and weighs an estimated 5,000 pounds. The average great white shark is 15 feet long, making it twice the size of your worst nightmare. You could call them the lions of the sea, but they eat sea lions for breakfast. Equipped with up to 300 flesh-rending teeth, a super-strong sense of smell, and special organs geared to detect the electromagnetic fields of other animals, great whites are the world's biggest predatory fish, per National Geographic.
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